Pater may refer to:
Latin for "father"
*a title given to a
father deity
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Dis Pater, a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter
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God the Father
God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity. In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, God the Son Jesus Christ, and the third person, God t ...
in Christianity
*a title or honorific applied to a male community leader
**a honorific for ordained
Catholic priest
The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only ...
s
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Pater familias
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Pater Patriae
**Pater, the leader of a
Mithraeum in Mithraism
People with the surname
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Grzegorz Pater
Grzegorz Pater (born 5 March 1974 in Kraków) is a Polish professional footballer who plays for Podgórze Kraków.
Career
He formerly played for clubs like Wisła Kraków, Górnik Polkowice and Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała. Pater was also kno ...
(born 1974), Polish soccer player
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Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jean-Baptiste Pater (December 29, 1695 – July 25, 1736) was a French rococo painter.
Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of painter Jean-Baptiste Guide. Pater then m ...
(1695–1736), French painter
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Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist
Popular culture
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''Pater'' (film), a 2011 French film
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Pater Moeskroen
Pater Moeskroen is a Dutch Folk group. During the summer they tour the country to play at festivals and big parties; in the winter the band plays in theaters throughout the Netherlands. The band's music contains elements of folk, klezmer, Celti ...
, Dutch Folkband
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Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, a stadium/sports complex in Pirae, Tahiti
Other uses
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Pastil
''Pastil'', or ''pastel'', is a Filipino packed rice dish made with steamed rice wrapped in banana leaves with dry shredded beef, chicken, or fish. It originates from the Maguindanao people and is a popular, cheap breakfast meal in Mindanao, ...
, a Filipino packed rice dish
See also
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Pater noster
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Patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certai ...
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are primarily held by men. It is used, both as a technical anthropological term for families or clans controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males a ...
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Mater (disambiguation)
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